Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 392 pages)
ISBN:
9780776606514
,
0776615513
,
0776606514
,
0776615513
,
9780776606514
,
9780776615516
Series Statement:
Governance series
Content:
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy objective that in this era of increased free trade and globalization must compete with intense cross-border flows of people and goods. Border-security policies must enable security personnel to identify, or filter out, dangerous individuals and substances from among the millions of travelers and ton
Content:
Chapter 6. From Iron Curtain to Paper Wall: The Influence of Border Regimes on Local and Regional Economies--The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Bazaars in the Lódz RegionChapter 7. The Economic Cost of Border Security: The Case of the Texas-Mexico Border and the US VISIT Program; Chapter 8. The Costs of Homeland Security; Chapter 9. Managing US-Mexico Transborder Cooperation on Local Security Issues and the Canadian Relationship; Chapter 10. Anti-terrorism in North America: Is There Convergence or Divergence in Canadian and US Legislative Responses to 9/11 and the US-Canada Border?
Content:
Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Borders, Borderlands, and Porosity; Chapter 1. The Maritime Borders of Europe: Upstream Migratory Controls; Chapter 2. Whose Security? Dilemmas of US Border Security in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands; Chapter 3. Border Acrobatics between the European Union and Africa: The Management of Sealed-off Permeability on the Borders of Ceuta and Melilla; Chapter 4. Fayuca Hormiga: The Cross-border Trade of Used Clothing between the United States and Mexico; Chapter 5. A New Northern Security Agenda
Content:
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy objective that in this era of increased free trade and globalization must compete with intense cross-border flows of people and goods. Border-security policies must enable security personnel to identify, or filter out, dangerous individuals and substances from among the millions of travelers and ton
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Print version Borderlands Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©2007
Language:
English
Keywords:
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